The Master Plan of the Future: Strategic Facility Planning with Scenario Tools

An Organizational Guide for Maximizing Flexibility in Uncertain Times: Scenario Planning for Capital Plans in the Workplace

Linking Scenarios to Decision Making: An Expert Panel Discussion

The Future Track: Impact of Technology, Strategic Management Tools, Scenario Planning, and Strategic Planning

The Office of the Future: The Impact of Technology on the Workplace

The Internet and Work: the Impact on Individuals, Industries and Cultures

Future Trends, Advanced Scenario Planning, Creativity & Innovation, and Growth

The Master Plan of the Future: Strategic Facility Planning with Scenario Tools
The Healthcare Assembly, Boston, MA
The Strategic Leadership Forum, Boston, MA
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA

Scenario planning is one tool that looks ahead to creating the future with confidence by aligning real estate, resource and marketing plans with strategic, clinical, and financial goals.  The conference will present case study examples of how organizations have dealt with issues of operational efficiency, excess building capacity, facility consolidation, redesign of care delivery, cost avoidance and capital planning.  A mini Team Planning session will help participants experience the application and impact of scenario planning.

Translating strategic goals in robust solutions that work no matter how the health care industry evolves.  The future is unpredictable, particularly in these turbulent times of rapidly changing service and business needs.  Learn how to create facility action plans for the medical campus and satellite facilities that acknowledges uncertainty yet confidently meets future needs.

Linking Scenarios to Decision Making: An Expert Panel Discussion
Strategic Leadership Forum and The Marketing Institute, San Diego, CA
 

Too often, scenario users are left wondering, "So what.  We've created scenarios, analyzed implications, and tested strategies.  Can we tie this work to your day to day decision making processes?"
The firms represented on the panel have different responses to this question.  They will provide examples of where linking scenarios to decision making has been critical and explore the possibility that a direct connection to decision making may not be necessary.
Moderator:
Audrey Schriefer, Principal, Schriefer.com

Panelists:
Gerald Harris, Principal, global business Network
John Kelly, Senior consultant, Northeast Consulting Resources
Bill Ralston, Vice President, SRI International
Peter kennedy, Director, The Futures Group

Future Trends, Advanced Scenario Planning, Creativity & Innovation, and Growth
International Strategic Management Conference, New York Hilton, NYC
Audrey Schriefer organized and managed this track.

• Future Trends - John Mahaffie, futurist, co-author of 2025: Scenarios of the U.S. and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology
• Advanced Scenario Analysis: Strategizing under Extreme Uncertainty - Kevin Slayden and Lisa Pizzarello, Kaiser Associates
• Creativity & Innovation - Langdon Morris and William Miller, V.P. of R&D Steelcase. Co-authors of "Managing Innovation" due out in 1998
• Growth - Roger Levien, former V.P. of Strategy, Xerox Corporation. Driving change in the corporation.

Future Track: Impact of Technology, Strategic Management Tools, Scenario Planning, and Strategic Planning
International Strategic Leadership Conference, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC

1. The Threat and Opportunity of Disruptive Technology
    Clay Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School
Many scholars of strategic management have studied reasons why successful incumbent firms fail when faced with technological change. A growing body of evidence suggests that management itself may lie at the root of the failure of once great firms. this session highlights ways to anticipate technological change for competititve advantage.
2. Managing Today's Tools for Tomorrow's Success
    Darrell Rigby, Director, Bain and Company
This session presented the findings of Bain's 4th annual global survey on the usage of key management tools, their strengths and weaknesses and practices that lead to profitable operations and growth.
3. The Power of Scenarios
    Arie de Geus, Visiting Fellow, London Business School
    (formerly, Director, Group Planning, Royal Dutch Shell)
The scenario technique can help you read the future's weak signals and interpret them to reduce uncertainty and risk, see new possiblities, and, thereby, gain strategic advantage.
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4. Why Most Strategic Planning is a Waste of Time and What You Can Do About It
    Dan G. Simpson, Director, Strategy & Planning, the Clorox Company
Turning your strategy work from a rain dance to a thunderstorm will requre you to rethink your fufndamental beliefs about good strategy and how it gets created. A veteran strategist and planner helps you redesign your process.

The Office of the Future: The Impact of Technology on the Workplace
Build Boston, World Trade Center, Boston, MA

The Internet and other advances in technology are shaping new forms of work and work environments.  Audrey Schriefer explores the implications based on ten months of primary research. These changes are radically transforming the corporate office from a place for individual work to one in which the emphasis is on teamwork and collaboration. Community-based telecenters and home offices will allow a reintegration of work and community. Enhanced commuications, while decreasing the need to commute to a remote office, will expand markets and competition on a global scale. Audrey Schriefer, management consultant and registered architect, explores how the office, home and community environments need to adapt in order to support these changing forms of work.

The Internet and Work: the Impact on Individuals, Industries and Cultures
Strategic Leadership Forum, Boston Chapter
Strategic Leadership Forum, New York Chapter

Audrey Schriefer, Schriefer.com, and Lou McGinity, controller, Xerox Corporation, teamed up to present "The Internet and Work".  Audrey Schriefer has traveled around the globe to research how the Internet is changing the way thirty-one leading edge companies work. The results of her extensive ethnographic and contextual research show how the Internet and other new communication technologies are changing the way we work and how they are enabling new forms of globalization, mobility and productivity. Careers, businesses and industries are being transformed because of the Internet. It transcends traditional boundaries and frees individuals from captive employment. Ms McGinity discussed Xerox's implementation of the virtual office, its enabling technologies and its implications - both the advantages and the disadvantages.

The presentation discussed:

• how boundaries are changing in many dimensions
• how virtual work creates a need for physical presence
• how loyalty and belonging remain critically important

and explored the impacts on:

• human interaction and collaboration
• the relationship between work, family and community
• the quality of human relationships.

The research focused on real people in companies of all sizes across a broad range of industries solving real problems. Senior executives are reshpaing thier organizations today with the Internet, seeking to create sustainable competitive advantage.